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trug

/tɹʌɡ/

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Australia/tɹɐɡ/

trug noun: a shallow, oval basket used for gardening.

Noun

trug (plural trugs)

  1. (UK) A shallow, oval basket used for gardening
  2. (obsolete) A trough or tray.
  3. (obsolete) A hod for mortar.
  4. (obsolete) A concubine; a harlot.
    • the Tobacco seller, with their companion Trugs, must be coached to […]many other places, like wild haggards prancing up and down1630, John Taylor, “The World Runs on Wheels”, in All the Workes of John Taylor the Water Poet

trug meaning in Tamil and Malayalam

trug in Tamil

பால்மரவை

trug in Malayalam

തോട്ടക്കൊട്ട

Forms of trug

pluraltrugs

Origin of trug

Compare trough.

Words that rhyme with trug

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Questions about trug

What does trug mean?
Trug means a shallow, oval basket used for gardening.
What is trug in Tamil?
Trug in Tamil is பால்மரவை. See Trug meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is trug?
Trug is a noun.
How do you pronounce trug?
Trug is pronounced /tɹʌɡ/ (UK).
What is the plural of trug?
The plural of trug is trugs.

Words near trug in the dictionary

  1. truffles
  2. truffley
  3. truffling
  4. truffly
  5. truffs
  6. trug
  7. Truganina
  8. Truganini
  9. trugg
  10. truggies
  11. trugging-house

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Adapted from Wiktionary: trug (page history and authors); trug (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); trug (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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